idek if 7zip is better than winrar anymore assuming both are being updated constantly, but like... My memory is that pretty much every tech oriented person on windows uses 7zip.

  • blobjim [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    Reworking UIs always makes them worse and harder to use

    No it doesn't.

    look at fucking post-7 windows: it’s an abject mess

    When was the last time you used Windows? Windows 7 is unusable compared to Windows 10. There are so many features we take for granted that Windows 7 didn't have.

    dogshit menus anyone has ever concocted serving as a pointless wrapper over the ancient and still functioning programs that have been around for decades.

    Yeah, because Microsoft didn't update the menus. You want them to go back to even older awful and janky UIs? There's a reason why every application these days is just a webpage. It's because there has been zero investment in making it easy to create desktop applications for Windows. Web based applications manage to have a lot of functionality without ending up as unusable giant bags of tiny buttons (terrible UX) or feature-poor applications that never improve because adding a new button is too hard.

    • KobaCumTribute [she/her]
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      1 year ago

      When was the last time you opened a menu in windows? Like go and open the settings menu right now. It's an absolute trainwreck of vague bullshit going into feature poor tablet style menus with tabs that are similarly vague and may or may not even have screens of their own, with no consistency to any of it, and in order to actually do anything you need to navigate this labyrinthine mess to find where it's hidden the ancient program that actually does whatever you're trying to do and just use that with it's simple and usable interface.

      • blobjim [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        It's literally better than Control Panel, which uses popup child windows all over the place which are awful.

    • FuckyWucky [none/use name]
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      1 year ago

      i don't know, windows 7 is still perfectly usable today if it weren't for everyone abandoning it.

      that said i don't mind Windows 10 UI either. Its that the "new" UI has more missing features compared to old UI.